Warhammer 40: From the League of Humans to Warhammer

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The naval commander Nord only glanced at Evelynn, who was being led away, and then said nothing more. They were just some defeated subordinates, not worth mentioning to him.

He hurried into the parliament hall. "Strand Sharpbeek, something terrible has happened! We're in trouble!"

Nord said this as soon as he entered the hall.

Originally, it was because the Eldar came to tell him that humans had already arrived in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Even with Zhou Qing's presence, Strand Sharpbeek, who was already somewhat agitated, felt a jolt of unease upon hearing Nord's words.

A very bad feeling arose in his heart.

"What trouble?"

"Tell me what trouble you're in, because I'm also facing a huge problem!"

The existence of humans is, after all, only Eldar's side of the story. Compared to the troubles their old comrades encountered in battle, Eldar's words can be ignored for now.

"I think I've encountered humans!" Since his old friend had said so, Nord simply told him about the trouble he had encountered first.

The moment he finished speaking, Strand Sharpbeek's previously rosy starfish-like face turned deathly pale.

"Humans! Those spirit races didn't lie to us. The trouble I'm facing here is also due to humans. A spirit race member came to visit me with a group of defeated spirit race soldiers, and she explained the situation to me!"

After discovering that the two were facing almost the same kind of trouble, Strand Sharpbeek quickly shared the latest information he had received.

“I showed that Elven race some faces to him so he could identify them, and he told me he saw Zhou Qing, that demon!”

Upon hearing this, Nord, whose face was already black, instantly turned deathly pale.

"Zhou Qing? That devil who devised the method of turning our people into canned food?"

"That guy actually showed up? Then I've run into humanity's vanguard scientific research and exploration force!"

While leading my troops in pursuit of a cyborg civilization, a subspace portal appeared, leading to the Human Alliance's War Moon.

"The Month of War? Are you sure it's the Month of War? Doesn't that mean the vanguard of the Human Federation is on its way?"

"This is a huge problem. I think we probably have to go into full combat mode. Go and activate all the warships we brought with us right now, activate our War Moon, and prepare to fight!"

"Activate the stellar-class warships if necessary, and prepare to engage the enemy!"

Zhou Qing's appearance definitely means that a large force from the Human Federation is about to arrive; such a top scientist is undoubtedly backed by a substantial protective force.

"The human army behind this demon is no small number. Perhaps another demon among the humans, Marshal Darius Kyle Kane, is also here!"

"If it really is him, then everything is in your hands. You must stall them for a while. I will now order the entire empire to conduct a selection process to choose our most outstanding youths."

If it is confirmed that humans have attacked, then I will immediately take that group of the most outstanding young people and leave this place to seek hope for survival elsewhere.

Even if we can only flee in disarray, I will preserve the last embers for our people and our empire!

Zhou Qing's arrival and the emergence of the Human Federation's War Month clearly indicate that the main human forces are likely already on their way.

The true main force of the human fleet during the War Moon: The appearance of the War Moon means that this is not an ordinary human patrol fleet, but the main force that has arrived.

A small planetary warship was not scary to the Starfish Empire at this time; what was truly terrifying was the meaning behind a planetary warship.

The emergence of planetary-level warships signifies the emergence of human military warships, and the emergence of human military warships means that more human legions will emerge.

The Cessar Empire must prepare for the worst!

Regardless of whether the human army has begun to arrive, their most pressing task now is to immediately identify the most outstanding young people within their empire, gather them together, and prepare for evacuation at any time.

If it were any local companies or large corporations that came this time, they could probably have a chat with them.

The Earth Alliance is relatively pro-foreign. Although they have done many terrible things to the Earth Alliance, the Earth Alliance generally will not choose to completely exterminate them.

After all, the Earth Alliance had already withdrawn during the later stages of the war, and only the Human Alliance was left to hunt them down.

The local league's knees are still quite flexible; they're open to negotiation.

However, the relationship with giant corporations is not irreconcilable.

The specifics can be discussed and negotiated. For large corporations, interests are the most important thing, and they can certainly use some interests to buy some time.

Cesssal possesses a total of 40 planets. These 40 colonies represent their capital, and the giant corporations might be willing to negotiate with them.

But none of those are true; it's the Human Federation that's coming, and that makes all the difference!

These lunatics weren't even attacking them at the time, but they were the first to react and launch an attack on the starfish.

They had almost no other good options when facing the Human Federation, whose attitude towards them was always to exterminate them.

The only starfish that survived were those that were canned.

"Is 1 years of peaceful life finally coming to an end?"

Chapter 263 The former warship is now being activated

Cessar faces their greatest challenge yet.

So far, the starfish are unaware that Zhou Qing is alone, since no one would believe that a top scientist would be without a naval fleet and be all alone.

No one could believe that Zhou Qing only had one War Moon by his side, with no other warships, and he hadn't even equipped any star-class warships yet.

Not to mention those black hole warships and higher-level stellar warships, which Zhou Qing simply couldn't build at this point.

Even the War Moon is not actually a War Moon of the same level; it may appear to be the same size, but its combat power is far inferior.

At this point, the starfish was not without the ability to fight.

If they could figure out Zhou Qing's situation and then mobilize a large fleet to launch a full-scale attack, Zhou Qing's warships alone would definitely not be a match for the enemy.

Zhou Qing might have to immediately lead his fleet back to the Milky Way, then ask the space necromancers for help to develop his forces stealthily for a few decades before returning to destroy the starfish.

If the starfish takes the initiative to attack, it can buy them at least 20 years. After 20 years, things will be different.

Unfortunately, the starfish had already lost their morale after being defeated by the human army, and their fighting spirit plummeted after they learned that Zhou Qing himself had arrived.

From the very beginning, Regent Strand Sharpbeak's plan was to gather the best young people in the entire empire, prepare them to board colony ships, and escape towards the outer reaches of the galaxy.

Although he knew very well that even if he ran out of the outer reaches of the Milky Way, even if he ran another four hundred thousand light-years, what difference would it make if he faced the warships of the Federation of Humanity?

Federation warships could catch up with them and destroy them.

But it's better to leave some embers and run away than to do nothing!

After leaving the Regent's Palace, Commander Nord also went to the main star system where their warships were stored.

Yierkangjia Galaxy —

The core star system of the Cessar Empire contains no colonized worlds of the Cessar Empire.

Some only have individual planets.

This is where the empire's core warships are stored, including three star-class warships and 29 planetary-class warships.

In addition, there are 111 satellite-class warships here!

Besides these starships, there are also a large number of battleships and Titans. These ships are a main fleet left over from the Starfish's war with humans 1 years ago.

The entire fleet was originally intended to launch a surprise attack on the border star system of the Human Federation and lure the Human Federation's naval fleet to stop its advance into their heartland.

Along with their fleet, there were as many as 16 other warship groups carrying out this mission.

Even with such a large fleet of 16 warships, their role on the overall strategic chessboard is actually only auxiliary.

This shows just how glorious the Starfish Empire once was.

They were a civilization with influence throughout the entire galaxy, but their misfortune was that they actually destroyed humanity's core colony.

Then the erratic human regime of the Human Federation directly led its army to attack.

Nord arrived at the location of this star system and looked at the large number of planetary-level starships and conventional warships stored on his side. He felt a little more confident.

With such a massive fleet, and the human fleet being merely a small one with only a tiny War Moon, he should be able to achieve victory.

Even if tens of thousands of years pass, human technology will be unable to predict how far it will develop.

But they really have no other choice, don't they?

Nord felt a little more confident, but that confidence quickly deflated like a balloon.

"Even if I can hold off this human fleet for a while, so what?"

Without the protection of these warships, how will our descendants and offspring survive in this dark galaxy?

"Their development was already slow, and now that they've lost their foundation in this area, achieving the prosperity and flourishing of the empire will become even more difficult."

Nord had a thought that gave him a terrible headache: the slow progress of his children and descendants.

Ten thousand worlds are needed to compare to one core world from before, and that was when they came here with a large group of members who developed it together.

Ten thousand years have passed. The original crew members on their warships have gradually aged and died. Will this new group of starfish be able to create a civilization just like theirs?

Will their descendants still remember just how glorious the civilization they created was?

Countless emotions welled up in Nord's mind. In his view, he was almost certainly doomed and had no chance of survival.

All he wanted to do was to hold off the human army, buy time for their descendants to evacuate, and buy time for his old comrades to evacuate as well. He would choose to stay here and block the human attack.

However, after looking at the fleet in front of him, Nord pondered for a long time but did not choose to start all the warships directly.

There's no unique reason; it's simply because their energy is limited. Once all these warships are activated and ready for use, their stored energy coins will be used up like a tidal wave.

Once the warships are activated, the energy they require is astronomical. Based on current energy reserves, after activating all of these warships, the entire empire can only sustain itself for about two years, apart from the necessary energy consumption.

Two years later, their warships will be completely cut off from energy, and the entire empire will come to a complete standstill due to the lack of energy.

At this point, it was not yet certain that a large-scale human army had arrived, and they had not yet reached the point where they needed to activate all their warships.

Judging from the size of the subspace passage, it should only be a small War Moon. They only need to activate one War Moon and some Titans, as well as battleships and destroyers, to confront the enemy.

Nord stood inside his flagship and began a detailed selection process among the War Moon, Satellite-class warships, and Titan warships. Soon, he completed the formation of a fleet consisting of one War Moon, three Satellite-class warships, six Titans, 56 battleships, 143 cruisers, and a sufficient number of destroyers and frigates.

From a certain perspective, this fleet should be sufficient to stop the vanguard force that humanity just sent out.

"Hmm, it should be possible!" Nord silently encouraged himself.

For the sake of the entire empire, for the sake of all the people of Haixing, for the sake of all future generations, he could not back down. He had to provide a safe haven for his descendants so that they could continue to exist.

Chapter 264 The starfish's strength seems to surpass that of the human empire; caution is advised.

Just as the starfish were activating their fleets as if facing a formidable enemy, Zhou Qing, with the powerful reconnaissance system of the War Moon, had already scanned the situation of hundreds of star systems around them.